From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [RFC] git email submissions Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:51:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20051116145100.GY30496@pasky.or.cz> References: <437B4472.1080401@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 16 15:54:48 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EcOdV-00007z-HQ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:51:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030356AbVKPOvF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:51:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030360AbVKPOvE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:51:04 -0500 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:48101 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030356AbVKPOvC (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:51:02 -0500 Received: (qmail 8239 invoked by uid 2001); 16 Nov 2005 15:51:00 +0100 To: Jeff Garzik Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <437B4472.1080401@pobox.com> X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dear diary, on Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:38:42PM CET, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik said that... > For people without _any_ hosting, it would be nice to give them a method > to submit some git changes via email. What kind of people have no hosting whatsoever? There is plenty of free web hosting sites, and that should be enough...? > - is this all pointless, since the submittor could just email patches? > [IMO no, git trees are better merges than emailed patches] Couldn't you just look at the applies-to string of the first patch in the series, branch up from that commit, and at the end of the series do the merge? No special tool required, just a bit smarter applier. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.